Scientific revolution

Claudius Ptolemy

100

Claudius Ptolemy was the person who started the idea of the Earth being the center of the universe and and he believed that all the other planets rotated the earth because the earth did not spin. This is significant because the scientific revolution would have never happened because if he wasn't wrong other people would not have tried to disprove his theory. Also it was the theory that the church believed in.

Scientific Revolution

Period: 100 to 1800

Roger Bacon

1200

Roger Bacon was a Franciscan monk who studied at Oxford who was an English philosopher and scientists he was one of the first people to start to believe in the concept of scientific experimentation. He was also viewed as a leading scholar of his time and was one of the first people to go against the beliefs of the church.

Leonardo Da vinci

1492

Leonardo Da vinci was an Italian inventor who changed peoples perspectives on many things including flight, art, architecture, Sculpting, and he was a student of anatomy which is the study of the human body. Da vinci affected the way that many people thought about there bodies because before he found out it was all what the church believed in. He also inspired future people to study the human body like Andreas Vesalius and William Harvey who furthered the study of anatomy.

Nicolaus Copernicus

1543

Nicolaus Copernicus was the first person to question the thinking of the church when he argued that the sun was the center of the universe When his theory was published in 1543 not many people paid attention but his work was the foundation of the work that Galileo proved t be true. This affected people very little in the beginning but eventually it caused a huge change in thinking.

Andreas Vesalius

1543

Andreas Vesalius was an early pioneer of the study of the human body also known as anatomy he refused to accept the writings of Galen that was written 1400 years before so he studied anatomy and wrote a new book about it called On The Fabric of the Human Body this led to more study of the human body like William Harvey.

Francis Bacon

1546

Francis Bacon was an English philosopher who started to influence the English government to start using the scientific experimentation method to use for their country and stop using the church for all there information. This is significant because he started to influence peoples opinions that were firmly in the opposite perspective before he got the idea.

Johanes Kepler

1609

Johanes Kepler was a German astronomer and he was a brilliant mathematician for his time who used math models and observation to prove Nicolaus Copernicus theory correct. Him and Galileo worked on slimier things at the same time. He affected how people thought about the world because he used something that he knew people believed in which was math and used it to prove Nicolaus Copernicus theory correct. He published the book the laws of planetary motion in 1609.

Galileo Galilei

1642

He was one of the first people to use a telescope that he made after hearing about the inventions also he confirmed Copernicus that the earth was not the center of the universe and that the earth circled the sun.

Gottfried Leibniz

1646

Gottfried Leibniz was the founder of calculus. This is significant in history because without him inventing this advanced mathematics strategy a lot of the scientists used calculus to do their experiments and they needed it to discover some of the things they discovered.

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

1648

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek was one of the first scientist who saw cells from a living organism he also discovered different kinds of bacteria that helped people understand how people got sick. This is significant because without his research we would have never have known what cells and bacteria were.

William Harvey

1657

William Harvey was a pioneer of modern Anatomy he studied the circulation of blood throughout your body using laboratory experiments. He described how veins and arteries he also observed the workings of how your heart works and how it pumps blood through your body and it is the central organ. This is significant in history because this was an unknown science before he started his research and there was only a little known about the body thanks to Leonardo Da Vinci's research.

Robert Boyle

1662

Robert Boyle helped pioneer the modern science of chemistry he studied how matter can change this is significant because it changed peoples perspectives of the everyday objects that surrounded them and how they change.

Isaac Newton

1687

Isaac Newton pioneered modern physics and published a book about it and made Newtons laws of motion that helped people understand more about how things moved and how things stopped moving.

Joseph Priestly

1733

Joseph Priestly was an English theoligist who contributed to the study of gasses and he helped prove that matter could change forms. He was significant because he was one of the leaders that were helping to prove that there were gasses and he also helped discover oxygen.

Antoine Lavoisier

1743

Antoine Lavoisier was a prominent french chemist who was the head of the chemical revolution who was murdered during the french revolution who developed an experimentally based theory about the chemical reactivity of oxygen and made a book about chemical substance naming. This is significant in history because he was a big reason for people finding out about what they were breathing and he was killed in the commotion of the french revolution.